Damien Welfare

Examples on which Damien has advised include:

Data sharing powers and agreements

Disclosure and use of CCTV data

Powers to disclose social security data of an individual to a public authority

Disclosure of the addresses of council tenants

Application of commercial confidentiality exception under EIR to scientific monitoring information

Whether information held by a contractor should be treated as “held” by the public authority

Telephone monitoring under Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (RIPA)

Innovative scheme of data sharing for local authority services (advice on, and drafting of, scheme).

Advice on contentious FOI request within authority, and interrelationship with councillors’ rights to access to information.

Advice on other EIR and subject access requests in contentious circumstances within local authority

Use of council information for other purposes

Application of FOI to parish council’s business

Advice on s 36, FOIA (prejudice to conduct of public affairs) and drafting of submissions to Information Commissioner

Sharing of customers’ personal data

Accidental disclosure and remedies

Data security and notification to Information Commissioner of breaches

Obligations/preparations arising from extension of FOI to new public authority (oral advice)